NUMERAR + AKURUM + DIY = Chic Wine Bar

Description: For our IKEA Hack we used several standard kitchen elements and a significant modification to one to transform an underutilized section of our house’s kitchen into a chic wine bar and storage area.

Since our house is an 1885 Victorian Row House, we didn’t feel the standard IKEA butcher block counters really “went” with the home’s style. To remedy this, we used our router to put a more decorative edge on the butcher block.

We assembled the cabinets, placed our wine fridge between two Akurum base cabinets, and placed the counter top on the cabinets.

We also constructed a few DIY shelves, one with integrated LED lighting and hanging wine glass storage, to balance the whole area and accessorize.

The end result is a functional and stylish wine bar/food prep area that greatly expanded the storage capabilities of our kitchen, all while keeping with the style and feel of our antique house.

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Jules Yap "I am Jules, the engine behind IKEAHackers and the one who keeps this site up and running. My mission is to capture all the wonderful, inspiring, clever hacks and ideas for our much loved IKEA items".

This is exactly what I want to do, however I need it to be about half the size: wine cooler that’s half the size of yours and maybe just one cabinet. It’s going up against a small kitchen wall. Since the wine cooler isn’t framed by cabinets, I’d still like it to have that built in look, so maybe just a side pannel on one side of the wine cooler? Any ideas? Great to find your site.

This looks really great, can’t even tell it’s from Ikea. Congrats on both this and the new house! I’m in need of something very similar (if not exactly the same) so you really just helped me out a lot. Thanks!

I think you may have gotten the names a little mixed up: Numerar countertop and Akurum base cabinet.

Great job! Looks professional! And for the yet-another-anonymous-jerk-making-this-site-unbearable, here is the first paragraph from this very site’s “about” page. >IkeaHackers.net is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as we call it here, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require power tools and lots of ingenuity.

Thank you. We like to look at every project we take on and ask ourselves “Does this look amateur or professional?” DIY is great and all, but it’s never good if someone can look at something and say “You did that yourself, didn’t you?”

What you point out about the purpose for IkeaHackers.net is exactly why I submitted our “hack.” Many people may not realize you can put an edge on the butcher block. We didn’t need to do any extensive hacking of products in this case, but I still felt it was worth submitting and letting the mods figure out if they wanted to use it. I’m glad they did, and I hope someone out there sees this and says “I didn’t know you could do that, I think I’ll give it a try.”

Thanks! The wall color is London Fog from Benjamin Moore. We really like it in the space and it goes great with the warmer butcher block color. If you’re interested in the before and after on paint colors in that room, you can see it here.

Good question. The fridge is a front blowing unit. It’s an Edgestar wine fridge that is meant for under counter mounting with little to no clearance on the side or availability of rear/top ventilation, so it worked perfectly in the space.

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